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Stock returns and Google Search volume data – an analysis on the Portuguese and American market
| Resumo: | This paper examines the forecasting power of Google Search Volume Data on market returns in the light of Behavioral Finance. The research is twofold: we investigate the ability of investor attention as well as investor sentiment to predict future returns. We consider weekly time series data from 2008 to 2018 for two American market indices and the Portuguese market. Investor attention is captured by search volume of the index’s names, i.e. DJIA, S&P500 and PSI20. Investor sentiment is simulated robustly by constructing two modified sentiment indices. We apply VAR models and Granger Causality and show that our proxies for investor attention do not provide significant forecasting information opposite to previous research. Similarly, investor sentiment indices constructed with English searched terms cannot predict market returns. However, both investor sentiment indices constructed with Portuguese words reveal significant precedence. |
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| Autores principais: | Streicher, Annette Rachel |
| Assunto: | Investor attention Investor sentiment Forecasting returns Google SVI |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This paper examines the forecasting power of Google Search Volume Data on market returns in the light of Behavioral Finance. The research is twofold: we investigate the ability of investor attention as well as investor sentiment to predict future returns. We consider weekly time series data from 2008 to 2018 for two American market indices and the Portuguese market. Investor attention is captured by search volume of the index’s names, i.e. DJIA, S&P500 and PSI20. Investor sentiment is simulated robustly by constructing two modified sentiment indices. We apply VAR models and Granger Causality and show that our proxies for investor attention do not provide significant forecasting information opposite to previous research. Similarly, investor sentiment indices constructed with English searched terms cannot predict market returns. However, both investor sentiment indices constructed with Portuguese words reveal significant precedence. |
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